FLINT, MI -- An Irish national living in Oakland County faces federal charges after police said he attempted to solicit a sexually-explicit
picture from an investigator in Flint posing as a 13-year-old boy online.

A complaint was filed against the man who lives in Pleasant
Ridge Wednesday, March 12, in Flint U.S. District Court following an undercover
investigation by a United State Secret Service agent embedded with the Flint-based
Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit.

The suspect has yet to be indicted or arraigned on any
charges.

The agent claims he posted a Craigslist ad July 23, 2013,
stating that he was a "young guy looking for fun" in the Flint area. The
suspect allegedly responded to the ad less than 80 minutes later, according to
the affidavit filed by the agent.

According to the affidavit, the agent told the suspect
that he was a 13-year-old boy who lived with his grandparents in Grand Blanc.

The suspect allegedly responded by asking the undercover
agent for a photo of himself.

Three days later, the suspect engaged in a
sexually-explicit conversation with the undercover agent, according to the
affidavit. The suspect allegedly emailed multiple other sexually-explicit emails
to the undercover agent over the next week.

The agent was able to use data from Craigslist and an
Internet Service Provider to track the IP address of the suspect to a home in Pleasant
Ridge.

Investigators executed a search warrant at the home Monday,
March 10, and interviewed the suspect and his wife.

The suspect allegedly admitted to authorities that he used
email to communicate with a 13-year-old boy and that he downloaded child
pornography, according to the affidavit.

The man denied ever toughing or molesting anyone and
agreed to take a polygraph exam to prove it to investigators. The man failed to
appear at a polygraph examination scheduled at the Pleasant Ridge Police
Department, according to the affidavit.

The wife told investigators that the man, who has two
children, was originally from Ireland and was in the country on a Green Card,
which was set to expire in a year.

There are no new court dates scheduled in the case and
the suspect has no attorney on record.